Famous Quotes & Sayings

Harry Reid

I was kind of upset. He's blaming all this on Congress, and then he has the audacity to say what limited money he's helped us get, put it all on Louisiana. That's not fair. I'm very, very disappointed.

Robert Pinsky

When I had no roof I made audacity my roof.

Jerry Falwell

Can you imagine the insolence of these protesters? ... They have the audacity to disparage and demean these courageous soldiers who are enduring great physical and emotional trauma because they believed in the effort to bring freedom to Iraq.

Alexandra Cassavetes

I just want to make something that is true to itself and that interests me; otherwise, how can I have the audacity to think it's going to interest anybody else?

Jonathan Raban

I loved the audacity of that American principle which says. When life gets tainted or goes stale, junk it! Leave it behind! Go West!

The two women positively enjoy punishing the portly knight for his audacity as they deal with an insanely jealous husband, a rebellious daughter, a warlike French doctor, a nosy Welch clergyman and all the other denizens of their Windsor community.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Audacity succeeds as often as it fails; in life it has an even chance.

We actually have the tools in the life sciences to achieve anything that you have the audacity to envision. I just hope to live long enough not to die.

Jean Cocteau

Tact in audacity consists in knowing how far we may go too far.

Publilius Syrus

Audacity augments courage; hesitation, fear.

Edward Hirsch

There's the brilliant audacity of youth that poets strike upon in their earliest work sometimes that they never can hit upon again.

James Denton

The series has a real audacity right down to the title. You realize the title is as tongue-in-cheek as the show.

You would think the last victim of a burglary would be a marked unit. It shows audacity to do something like this. Audacity or stupidity, I'm not sure which.

Carl von Clausewitz

Given the same amount of intelligence, timidity will do a thousand times more damage than audacity

Jean Cocteau

Being tactful in audacity is knowing how far one can go to far.

David Platt

Everything in all creation responds in obedience to the Creator... until we get to you and me. We have the audacity to look God in the face and say, "No."

Robert A. Heinlein

Audacity, always audacity - soundest principal of strategy.

Sue Monk Kidd

We must err , do so on the side of audacity

Laini Taylor

The audacity to love. Do you know what a gift that is?

Douglas Alexander

Politics requires the sense of possibility. Dare I say it - the audacity of hope.

Nicolle Wallace

One way to look at it is that the need to respond aggressively is born out of the audacity of the Democratic attacks. ... We recognized the need to set the record straight in a way that hasn't been necessary since the campaign.

Georges Danton

Audacity, more audacity, always audacity.

Russell Crowe

Who on Earth had the ... audacity to take out the best actor's poem? ... I'll make sure you never work in Hollywood.

Gertrude Stein

Love: the skillful audacity required to share an inner life.

Honore de Balzac

Innocence alone dares commit certain acts of audacity. Virtue, when tutored, is as calculating as vice.

Ted Cruz

When, President Obama, do you mean to cease abusing our patience? How long is that madness of yours still to mock us? When is there to be an end to that unbridled audacity of yours swaggering about as it does now?

Issa Rae

It's one thing when other African-Americans try to threaten my race card, but when people outside of my ethnicity have the audacity to question how 'down' I am because of the bleak, stereotypical picture pop culture has painted for me as a black woman? Unacceptable.